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The Mandalorian’s Bo-Katan is key to understanding Mandalore’s complicated history

1 year 1 month ago

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Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff) in a closeup — Photo: Lucasfilm

Her (and her sister’s) history on Mandalore is alluded to in episode 2

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Caroline Cao

Sea of Thieves is coming to tabletops this summer

1 year 1 month ago

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title art for Sea of Thieves: Voyage of Legends, a tabletop adaptation of the 2018 video game — Image: Steamforged Games

From Steamforged, the folks also adapting Elden Ring and Monster Hunter

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Owen S. Good

Roguelike Have a Nice Death starts strong — but does it have a long game?

1 year 1 month ago

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Death and other members of Death Incorporated in a black-and-white splash screen from Have a Nice Death — Image: Magic Design Studios/Gearbox Publishing

Macabre humor meets the endless loop of corporate malaise

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Mike Mahardy

Wayfinder is a modern MMO made up of the genre’s best bits

1 year 1 month ago

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Wayfinder - Three players, taking the role of Silo, Wingrave, and Ness, prepare to face down an abstract soldier forged from the supernatural purple Gloom. — Image: Airship Syndicate/Digital Extremes

The closed beta is an intriguing preview

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Cass Marshall

You can now buy Lego’s gigantic Lord of the Rings: Rivendell set

1 year 1 month ago

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A photo of the Lego Rivendell set mid-assembly — Lego’s Rivendell model is one of the largest sets ever made and includes 15 Minifigs | Image: Lego

It’s yours for $499.99

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Alice Newcome-Beill

Taika Waititi is still making a Star Wars movie, unlike Kevin Feige

1 year 1 month ago

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Taika Waititi attends the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel — Photo: WireImage

Meanwhile Rian Johnson’s movies are apparently still alive

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Austen Goslin

PlayStation Plus’ free games for March are Battlefield 2042 and Minecraft Dungeons

1 year 1 month ago

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Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment

Essential-level subscribers also get Code Vein

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Owen S. Good

Master Chief is here to teach you how to file your taxes

1 year 1 month ago

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A close up of Master Chief in Halo: Combat Evolved. He is looking to the right and holding a large fun. — Image: Bungie/Microsoft Game Studios

And change your oil, and ask out your crush, and ...

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Nicole Clark

Microsoft adds a slime green color to its Xbox controller lineup

1 year 1 month ago

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Stock image of the Velocity Green Xbox Wireless controller, sitting atop a grassy knoll next to a butterfly. — Velocity Green joins the already diverse color options for the Xbox Wireless Controller. | Image: Microsoft

This $64.99 controller is giving off serious Nickelodeon vibes

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Alice Newcome-Beill

Where to unlock the Loporrit tribe quests in FFXIV

1 year 1 month ago

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A rabbit in a turban and sunglasses DJs a rave in Final Fantasy 14 — Image: Square Enix via Polygon

Help these bunnies out every day for sweet exclusive rewards

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Julia Lee

How to unlock the Eureka Orthos deep dungeon in FFXIV

1 year 1 month ago

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Eureka Orthos floor 10 boss in FFXIV. Purple lightning and RGB robot with sunglasses. — Image: Square Enix

Explore the new deep dungeon in Mor Dhona

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Johnny Yu

Jon Bernthal returns as Punisher in Disney Plus’ Daredevil: Born Again

1 year 1 month ago

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Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, the Punisher, in his 2017 Netflix series. — Photo: Jessica Miglio/Netflix

Daredevil will be born again, and the Punisher is coming with him

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Susana Polo

Overwatch 2’s One-Punch Man collab goes live, here’s what’s included

1 year 1 month ago

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A screenshot from Overwatch 2 featuring heroes dressed as One-Punch Man characters, including Genji as Genos, Kiriko as Terrible Tornado, Doomfist as Saitama, and Soldier: 76 as Mumen Rider. — Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard is going full anime for Overwatch 2’s first major crossover

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Michael McWhertor

Disney’s largely forgotten wartime shorts, ranked

1 year 1 month ago

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In a scene from the 1947 short Mickey and the Beanstalk, Goofy, Donald Duck, and Mickey Mouse slump hungrily over a wooden table in a bare room, wearing napkins around their necks and getting ready to split a single bean three ways — Image: Walt Disney Animation

Where to find the gems in Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, and the rest of Disney’s ‘package films’

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Ethan Warren

Pokémon Go maker’s new virtual pet game Peridot launches in May

1 year 1 month ago

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Two colorful, furry fantasy animals with varying patterns play with a tennis ball in artwork from Niantic’s Peridot — Image: Niantic

Niantic has an ambitious new augmented reality mobile project

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Michael McWhertor

Sons of the Forest’s wildest fan theories, explained

1 year 1 month ago

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The protagonist looking down at their arm in Sons of the Forest. They have a wrist tattoo that says “Fight Demons.” — Image: Endnight Games/Newnight via Polygon

So... what happened to the Pufftons?

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Johnny Yu

GOG is discounting cyberpunk games by up to 90%

1 year 1 month ago

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A stock image for GOG.com’s Neon Dreams sale. The name of the sale is written in bold letters atop an illustrated backdrop with a person in the upper right corner, and a city storefront on the bottom. — Add some excellent cyberpunk titles to your rig with GOG’s Neon Dreams sale | Image: GOG.com

Save on some of the best titles in the cyberpunk genre, courtesy of the folks at GOG until March 13

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Alice Newcome-Beill

Decades later, Super Mario Bros. 3 is still full of surprises

1 year 1 month ago

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A Nintendo Switch with a screenshot of a Mario Bros. 3 dungeon level posed next to a Game Boy Advance SP. A Super Mario Bros. 3 GBA cartridge is propped up against the Switch. — Photo: Nicole Clark/Polygon

Playing it on Nintendo Switch made me obsessed anew

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Nicole Clark

Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s Hyrule makes for a wild Mario Kart 8 track

1 year 1 month ago

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The Deku tree, a huge sentient tree from Zelda: Ocarina of Time, looms tall over a field of Mario Kart racers — Image: RiazorMC/Nintendo

It looks pretty tricky to Navi-gate

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Oli Welsh

Hugh Grant’s charisma is appropriately high in official stats for D&D movie

1 year 1 month ago

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six fantasy illustrations. in order: a charming bard played by chris pine; a warrior woman played by michelle rodriguez; a young tiefling druid played by sophia lillis; a sorcerer played by justice smith; a paladin played by rege jean page; and a smirking rogue played by hugh grant — Image: Wizards of the Coast

Who would win in a battle of charisma? Hugh Grant or Chris Pine?

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Petrana Radulovic

FFXIV Endwalker Manderville relic weapon guide, quest, and steps

1 year 1 month ago

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A Viera dressed in red holds up a glowing blue rapier in Final Fantasy 14 — Image: Square Enix via Polygon

How to start making (what will be) the best weapon in Endwalker

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Julia Lee

All Quiet on the Western Front is actually the Oscars’ horror contender

1 year 1 month ago

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German soldier Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer), face so caked with dried and flaking grey mud and blood that he looks like a classic Universal Pictures movie monster, stares offscreen in 2022’s Best Picture nominee All Quiet on the Western Front — Photo: Netflix

The film’s grotesque violence is hitting big with voters, when other genre movies don’t

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Jesse Hassenger

When does Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 2 launch?

1 year 1 month ago

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A Fortnite player flying underneath a red rift in the sky — Image: Epic Games

Head into Neo-Tokyo with the new MEGA Season 2

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Jeffrey Parkin

Gloomhaven’s sequel is so big they hired a submarine engineer to fit it inside the box

1 year 1 month ago

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Polygon

A picture of Frosthaven as it begins to ship out to customers from a distribution center. — Image: Cephalofair Games/YouTube

Frosthaven weighs in at more than 35 pounds

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Charlie Hall

The biggest new and returning TV shows coming in 2023

1 year 1 month ago

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Polygon

Joel (Pedro Pascal) looks over his shoulder while holding a flashlight in The Last of Us — Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO

There’s just a lot of TV coming

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Pete Volk

The 2023 movie preview

1 year 1 month ago

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Collage image of movies featured in this preview, including Barbie, Across the Spider-Verse, M3GAN, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Dune Part 2, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie — Graphic: Pete Volk/Polygon | Source images: Warner Bros., Sony Animation, Disney, Universal Pictures, Illumination, Nintendo

Get excited for a year of action, animation, horror, and weirdo drama

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Jesse Hassenger

Avatar: The Way of Water will soon be available to watch at home

1 year 1 month ago

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Image: 20th Century Studios

Avatar 2 comes to digital before Disney Plus

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Austen Goslin

Valheim, Civ 6, and Guilty Gear Strive lead Game Pass March lineup

1 year 1 month ago

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A lone warrior faces down a giant troll in a wooded area from the game Valheim — Image: Iron Gate/Coffee Stain Publishing

Say sayonara to Sans and the Guardians of the Galaxy

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Michael McWhertor

Creed 3’s box office returns are already breaking records

1 year 1 month ago

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Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) prepares to enter a boxing ring, in white gloves and a red, white, and blue American-flag themed hooded robe in Creed III — Photo: Eli Ade/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures

Michael B. Jordan concludes his boxing trilogy with another knockout

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Austen Goslin

Why a Vanderpump Rules breakup is the Red Wedding of reality TV

1 year 1 month ago

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The cast of Vanderpump Rules season 10. — Image: Bravo

‘This is our Watergate’

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Sadie Gennis

Redfall will get full cross-play on Xbox, Steam, and Epic Games Store

1 year 1 month ago

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Polygon

The four protagonists of Redfall walk down a street together, carrying their guns and chatting — Image: Bethesda/Arkane Studios

‘You can join your friends wherever they are’

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Michael McWhertor

Where to buy Metroid Prime Remastered

1 year 1 month ago

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A screenshot from Metroid Prime Remastered — *The remaster adds updated HD graphics, additional control schemes, and improved audio.* | Image: Nintendo

Stock of the physical version is available at Amazon, presumably for a limited time

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Cameron Faulkner

When does Hogwarts Legacy come out on Switch, PS4, and Xbox One?

1 year 1 month ago

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Polygon

Two smiling Hogwarts students mix a potion recipe in a cauldron in a screenshot from Hogwarts Legacy — Image: Avalanche Software/Warner Bros. Games

The Harry Potter prequel game has 4 different release dates

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Michael McWhertor

All the new video games launching in 2023

1 year 1 month ago

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Polygon

2023 will be a massive year for new games

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Owen S. Good

I’m a Virgo is about a 13-foot-tall dude, who is also a Virgo by the way

1 year 1 month ago

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Polygon

a very tall black man sits on the stairs in front of a house. he wears a pink and orange shirt. because he is so big, everything around him looks very tiny in comparison — Image: Prime Video

Big guy, bigger world

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Petrana Radulovic

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is the only Oscars 2023 catchup movie you need

1 year 1 month ago

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Polygon

Rediscovering the only team-up between Best Actor and Actress frontrunners Brendan Fraser and Michelle Yeoh

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Tasha Robinson

The 21 best roguelikes

1 year 1 month ago

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Polygon

Alucard, the Beheaded, and Simon Belmont sylized in art for Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania — Image: Evil Empire/Motion Twin

Platformers, deck-builders, shooters, and more

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Cian Maher

How to play Fortnite Battle Royale in ‘first-person’

1 year 1 month ago

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Polygon

A Fortnite gun is scoped in, changing to a first-person perspective — Image: Epic Games via Polygon

The first-person mode is janky, but you can try it out if you want

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Julia Lee

Cities: Skylines 2 launching later this year

1 year 1 month ago

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Polygon

a frame grabbed from the Cities Skyline 2 announcement trailer shows a city in the distance with a modern suspension bridge, carrying traffic, in the foreground — Image: Colossal Order/Paradox Interactive via YouTube

Reigning city-builder supreme coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X

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Owen S. Good

Overwatch 2’s One-Punch Man crossover adds Genos Genji

1 year 1 month ago

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Polygon

Genji crouches in a three-point pose while dressed as Genos, the cyborg disciple of Saitama, from One-Punch Man. — Image: Blizzard Entertainment

Two cyborgs, one skin

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Michael McWhertor

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